The Dreamer's Catch-22

Despite my strong reliance on having an (overly) analytical mind, I must admit that at heart I am a dreamer.

The problem with dreamers is that they yearn for the ideal. There's nothing wrong with yearning for the ideal per se, it's just that it presents a possible problem for personal happiness when said dreamer lives on planet Earth. Why?

1. What the dreamer yearns for is the ideal.

2. In this humanity-populated, post-Fall-of-Man world, nothing is ideal.

So, the dreamer is left with either sucking it up with a dose of reality and settling for the less than ideal, or being left with what Langston Hughes calls "a dream deferred." Both are less than desirable options. Together they could be described as a catch-22.

The irony of it all is that not even the dreamer is exempt from the categorization of "less-than-ideal" because the dreamer, too, is human.

What I've just described is a problem that a pure dreamer might have. I don't think I'm a pure dreamer . . . nobody is purely anything, I don't think. I'm not averse to good doses of reality. In fact, I'm really cool with reality--I just want sprinklings of the ideal to go along with it. However, sometimes I'm afraid that I have just enough dreamer in me to produce symptoms of the aforementioned Dreamer's Catch-22 Syndrome.